The Statewide Measures Inventory is essentially a list of items of information along with concise definitions and other information of interest, relevant to statewide postsecondary education planning and management. It has been designed primarily as a working document for use by state level postsecondary education planners and decisionmakers. The primary objective of the inventory is to improve and simplify communication through increased standardization of terminology and usage. Secondary objectives are to provide assistance to those concerned with developing and designing data bases and information systems, and to suggest ways that statewide planning and decisionmaking might be improved through the identification of problems and issues to which the measures in the inventory are relevant. It should be emphasized that the inventory is not by itself a useful planning and management tool. It does provide a start toward the standardization of terminology for postsecondary education planning and management, and it suggests ways of linking this terminology to a variety of general statewide concerns. However, with respect to the tasks of analyzing specific statewide problems and issues and developing operational information systems, the inventory is at best a point of departure or frame of reference. (Author)